14 March 2010
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How is your journey going?

March/14/10

I liked Cheryl, at least as well as you can get to know someone by watching them on television. She seems as though she is a good person; caring, compassionate and devoted to her family. However, as I listened to her talk about her new changed life, I could not help being a preacher. I look at nearly everything I encounter and see a spiritual application. I suppose it is the preacher “curse.”  When Cheryl said she had never been in this particular point in her life – I thought “none of have”, because every moment is virgin soil for us to tread in lives path. Tomorrow, or even the next minute, is the valley of the unknown for each and every one of us. Life is that precious untold voyage we are all on. Cheryl also said, “I’m going to live forever.” Well that is right up my alley as a preacher. Of course I am sure she was not speaking of eternal life, she was talking in the context of the physical realm.  I’m sure she knows that this is impossible to live and never die, never have our bodies deteriorate, and never face the grave. Death is just as much a part of life as birth. Our life’s journey will end when our days run out, and only God knows that particular time. He desires that we understand life and what life lead to: the reality of eternity. There is never going to be enough time to preach every sermon I want, or teach every person, even do all the things I want to do in my ministry with the time I have left in my life. The Lord knows I have wasted so much of my life in worthless pursuits, and I know it too. I don’t know how much time remains on my untold story of life, but I want what remains to be working for the Lord and watching for His return for me. How is your journey going?

Last week Cheryl was voted off the reality show “Biggest Loser.” She had started the weight lose show at 227 pounds, and today she weighs a remarkable 164 pounds. She said the first thing she did when returning home from the “ranch” was to empty her closet of all the, now, oversize clothing. Cheryl also said that now because of the show she is a point in her life that she has never been before, and she plans to continue her journey. She has such encouragement from her husband, daughter, and grandchildren. In her departing video clip she said these words, “My life is not going to be cut short because of my health and because of my weight. I’m going to live forever.”